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The municipal chief doctor Barbro Kvaal in Indre Østfold was on vacation and was standing in the garden when the phone rang. He had Norway’s biggest outbreak in August on his lap. Now municipal doctors tell how they managed to stop 32 virus outbreaks in August. Photo: Monica Strømdahl
Municipal Chief Doctor Barbro Kvaal and his colleagues stopped 32 outbreaks of the coronavirus in Norway during August. This is how they did it.
Indre Østfold’s municipal chief was having a summer vacation and was in the garden when the phone rang.
– I left the wheelbarrow in the garden. There it was, says Babro Kvaal.
The first sign that an outbreak was coming came on August 4. The hospital called and said that a person was admitted with covid-19 after a trip to the city of Askim with a large group of friends. Friends were infected. In addition, infection was detected in some families of immigrant origin.
After a few days, 100 people tested positive. The largest single outbreak in Norway in August was a fact.
Three weeks later, the fact is that both the outbreak in Indre Østfold and a total of 32 virus outbreaks reported in Norway in August are under control so far.
Lessons learned from how Norway managed to halt the rise in infection in August can save lives and cost society when the next outbreaks occur.
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